Johannes Klingebiel

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Designer and researcher. STS & media stuff. Researching Hype. Doing mischief @media-lab.de. Forward deployed zine maker. Optimist aus Notwehr. ✨ 🌐 johannesklingebiel.de

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Johannes Klingebiel@klingebeil· 22h

Quick out of office note

Johannes Klingebiel@klingebeil· 7d

T-3

Johannes Klingebiel@klingebeil· 8d

Re: resistance to change. It's almost never irrational but often self-inflicted by bad management practices. repozytorium.kozminski.edu.pl/server/api/c...

But there is a simple way of exposing the fatuity of these generalisations. Suppose a manager announces one morning that there will be a 50% (or 10%, or even 1%) pay raise all round. Can we expect a cycle of denial- defence-discarding-adaptationinternalisation? Isn't it more likely that, other things being equal, people will be pleased and acceptant of the change?
The point is an obvious one: by and large people resist change because the change is damaging to them. And damaging not for psychological reasons of fear and uncertainty, but for quite straightforward reasons.
It is not just that resistance to change may be well-founded in terms of its effects on those affected; it may also reflect the ill-thought out nature of the change itself. To see resistance as a defensive response to necessary change is to indulge in a fantasy of managerial omnicompetence. Yet, if the problem is often one of in-adequate implementation, isn't it possible that some of the resisters knew what they were talking about, and were not simply defending their own economic and psychological interests?

Johannes Klingebiel@klingebeil· 10d

Exponentiality is that one thing SV needs to see in everything it does. So narratives and data are fitted around that idea. Does not mean things are not happening, but it's almost always downstream from that expectation, not the other way around. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Johannes Klingebiel@klingebeil· 14d

It's weird (and not that surprising) how little HCI work is present in the current 'AI' discourse… that one is from 2013. ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/658...

Johannes Klingebiel@klingebeil· 22d

Honestly, this is way more fun than it should be

Johannes Klingebiel@klingebeil· 26d

Made it btw

Johannes Klingebiel@klingebeil· Jul 8

Finally managed (with the strong help of claude) to code a IA writer template with some nice and crispy sidenotes!

Johannes Klingebiel@klingebeil· Jul 8

Let's check in on how things are going at Y Combinator…

Johannes Klingebiel@klingebeil· Jul 4

☀️

Johannes Klingebiel@klingebeil· Jul 1

Really funny stuff…

Johannes Klingebiel@klingebeil· Jul 1

This is a very funny thing to find out and then to conclude: we're still early!!! www.notion.com/resources/in...

Notion surveyed more than 6,000 AI Decision Makers and everyday AI Users globally to cut through the noise and map the real state of AI transformation—from early experimentation to AI-native operations.

The findings may surprise you: 88% of organizations are still in the early stages. Leaders are twice as confident as the workers using AI day-to-day. And the gap between investing in AI and being ready to deploy it well it is widening, not narrowing, as companies advance.

Johannes Klingebiel@klingebeil· Jun 28

It’s been a weekend

Johannes Klingebiel@klingebeil· Jun 16

The good part about having an upcoming wedding is that it is the perfect excuse to flex the design muscles a bit

Johannes Klingebiel@klingebeil· Jun 11

I have a running theory that there are only three types of coffee shops on this planet. (At least we moved past Airspace).

Johannes Klingebiel@klingebeil· Jun 10

Man, they did him dirty.

Johannes Klingebiel@klingebeil· Jun 9

I think it's less important that Musk has repeatedly made future promises he didn't keep, and more that this has been an increasingly strong pattern for him. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Johannes Klingebiel@klingebeil· Jun 7

Ljubljana, highly recommended

Johannes Klingebiel@klingebeil· Jun 4

Reminds me very much of Wajcman’s work on the designers of digital calendar tools journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

They advocate a work culture in which you always have too many interesting things to do. Hyper-productivity, living in the fast lane, is valorized as success. Rest is merely a means to excel at the office.
(....)
High-tech workers devote extremely long hours to achieve peak performance, but also make a great show of working long hours to demonstrate dedication to work. In this culture, work defines worth and is based on producing technology and embracing a fast pace and open attitude.
Daily life is colonized by work concerns and is saturated with technology. The sheer quantity of communications like email means that devices need frequent attention.
Determining the timing of access becomes a major part of the working day.

Johannes Klingebiel@klingebeil· Jun 3

„Yes, we employ a human-in-the-loop architecture for all our AI systems.“

Johannes Klingebiel@klingebeil· Jun 2

Interestingly, new consumption doesn't even appear in this list—despite some self-reporting studies putting it around 10%. (My best guess: while people *do* use chatbots for news, it's far from a regular use case) hbr.org/2026/06/how-...

Johannes Klingebiel@klingebeil· Jun 2

I have to confess… I quite like this new campaign by Figma

TOGETHER, WE MOURN DESIGN- KILLED, ACCORDING To X, APPROXIMATELY 847 TIMES THIS YEAR ALONE.
AND YET. NO MATTER HOW MANY TIMES WE DECLARE DESIGN IS DEAD, IT IS ALIVE.
DESIGN IS EVERYWHERE, QUIETLY THRIVING IN THE CLARITY OF THE SUBWAY MAP WHEN YOU FEAR YOU HAVE MISSED YOUR STOP, IN THE LEGIBILITY OF THE DINNER MENU EVEN WHEN YOU AREN'T SURE IF SORREL IS A VEGETABLE OR A NEW PASTA SHAPE, AND IN THE DOPAMINE-RELEASING
NOTIFICATION THAT A MEETING HAS BEEN CANGELLED. DESIGN DOESN'T DIE, IT IS NOT A TREND TO BE DISRUPTED OR A TECHNOLOGY TO BE REPLACED. IT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CARING ABOUT HOW SOMETHING MAKES YOU FEEL, NOT JUST IF IT WORKS.
SO HERE'S TO DESIGN - ENDLESSLY DECLARED GONE, ENDLESSLY PROVING EVERYONE WRONG.

Johannes Klingebiel@klingebeil· May 30

☀️

Johannes Klingebiel@klingebeil· May 29

I mean, come the fuck on…

Facts might not be a great bet in a news ecosystem increasingly mediated by AI either, Daudens said, as tech companies could get them by striking a deal with a single newswire.

This thought was echoed by Fang: there’s so much free information online such as research and press releases that AI companies could draw from, and that, for some, may be indistinguishable from journalism by news organisations.

Nikita Roy suggested we are at a turning point that, if missed, could spell disaster for the news industry. “We are in our Nokia and Kodak moment, where we are looking at a new product but thinking with the metrics of an old product,” she warned. Instead of worrying about how to recover lost web traffic and otherwise defend the status quo, we need to leave behind old assumptions.

AI is disrupting something more fundamental, Roy said: how information moves, how value is captured, what it means to be a media company.

Johannes Klingebiel@klingebeil· May 20

The whole study is curious but these in particular are an interesting counter-factual to what people were claiming only one year ago stateofaidesign.com/chapters/cra...

Johannes Klingebiel@klingebeil· May 14

Auf der Re:Publica nächste Woche? Lust über etwas über Hype zu lernen (und wie man den Gartner Hype Cycle eigentlich richtig nutzt)? Dann hab ich da was… re-publica.com/de/session/w...